Project Description
This project—through a poster, visual map, coded work, and installation—explores the journey of letting go. I built the narrative around the quote: “If you surrender to the air, you can ride it.” My research focused on the tension between ego and higher self, and how surrender requires both reflection and faith. The heart becomes central in this act, representing belief and trust, while the brain resists, creating an internal battle between control and release. Digitally, I used code to translate these ideas into action and instance—particles scattering and reforming, waves shifting in layered perspective, and interactive images responding to the viewer’s presence. These choices became metaphors for chaos, resistance, and eventual calm, using motion and interaction to visualize the act of surrender. The visual map blended imagery of a brain and heart, symbolizing how intellect and emotion must work together for true submission. Artifacts such as handcuffs, a puppet master, and a contemplative figure looking toward the sky highlight moments of restraint, control, and release. In the installation, mirrors served as both surface and metaphor. As viewers looked down into their reflection, their posture naturally shifted into a position of surrender—head lowered, back turned to the projection behind them. This blocking of the projection emphasized that true surrender is not external but internal. Across mediums, the work reflects surrender as a layered process: chaotic, reflective, and ultimately freeing.
